The profitability of such patrimony was nonetheless very low, so much that in 1838 the Papal Treasury had to provide almost half of the 32,000 scudi necessary for the management of the hospital (See Nibby, p. 141). Such low profitability was confirmed almost 50 years later, at the time of the Jacini Inquiry of 1883, when the average economic return of the patrimony – whose extension had in the meantime almost halved down to 1,393 hectares (5.38 sq mi) – was estimated at just 38 lire/ha. (p. 674).
